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Style of medieval fortification
shell keep is a style of medieval fortification, best described as a stone structure circling the top of a motte. In English castle morphology, shell
Shell_keep
Fortified tower built in the Middle Ages
and was a term applied to the shell keep at Guînes, said to resemble a barrel. The term came to be used for other shell keeps by the 15th century. By
Keep
Castle that sits beside Loch Ness
"shell keep" (a hollow enclosure) of this date. These ruins are fragmentary but indicate that there were towers to the north and south of the shell keep
Urquhart_Castle
Grade I listed castle in Cardiff, Wales
began to be rebuilt in stone, probably by Robert of Gloucester, with a shell keep and substantial defensive walls being erected. Further work was conducted
Cardiff_Castle
Ruined castle in Hampshire, England
of the octagonal keep and outlying earthworks. In September 2007 Hampshire County Council undertook a restoration of the shell keep under guidance from
Odiham_Castle
Former castle of the bishop of Winchester
massive foundations of a Norman tower and then totally enclosed by a shell keep, with buttress turrets and a shallow gatehouse. Attached to the motte
Farnham_Castle
Shell keep in Leiden, the Netherlands
(Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbʏr(ə)xt fɑn ˈlɛidə(n)]; Fort of Leiden) is an old shell keep in Leiden constructed in the 11th century. It is located at the spot where
Burcht_van_Leiden
GNU replacement for the Bourne shell
Bash (short for "Bourne Again SHell") is an interactive command interpreter and command language developed for Unix-like operating systems. Supported
Bash_(Unix_shell)
Medieval fortification
stone, with the keep and the gatehouse usually the first parts to be upgraded. Shell keeps were built on many mottes, circular stone shells running around
Motte-and-bailey_castle
Medieval castle in Gloucestershire, England
him permission to rebuild the castle. Fitzharding built the circular shell keep between 1153 and 1156, probably on the site of the former motte. The building
Berkeley_Castle
Norman castle in Cornwall, England
keep is the 13th-century high tower, 12 metres (39 ft) in diameter, constructed from dark shale. This replaced any internal rooms that the shell keep
Launceston_Castle
Norman castle in Cornwall, England
Restormel Castle is an unusually well-preserved example of a circular shell keep, a rare type of fortification built during a short period in the 12th
Restormel_Castle
Grade I listed castle in the United Kingdom
ground. Before 1100, the de Clares replaced the wooden castle with a stone shell keep. This was reinforced during the thirteenth century, and in 1295 a stone
Tonbridge_Castle
Styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans
Castle: keep Trematon Castle, shell keep and curtain White Tower, Tower of London Castle Rising Castle: keep entrance Chapel inside Dover Castle keep Hedingham
Norman_architecture
Official country residence of British monarch
were driven in to support the motte and the old wooden keep was replaced with a new stone shell keep, with a probable gateway to the north-east and a new
Windsor_Castle
Norman motte and bailey castle in Devon, England
Bramber, who is probably responsible for constructing the first stone shell keep and walls on the site. By 1326, the castle had fallen into ruin and was
Totnes_Castle
Castle in Surrey, England
around the top of the motte creating what is known as a shell keep, and then around the 1130s a keep (tower) was added, again made of Bargate stone from nearby
Guildford_Castle
Castle in North Yorkshire, England
stone shell keep. The current inner ward was originally the bailey, and was built between 1180 and 1187. The keep was developed into a stone shell keep sometime
Pickering_Castle
The two principal elements in their construction were the great tower or keep, such as the White Tower, and the fortified enclosure, such as is provided
List_of_castles_in_England
Raised bank of land or barrier
fabric that provide a barrier to keep spills from reaching the ground or navigable waterways. Most berms have sidewalls to keep liquids contained for future
Berm
Country house, owned by National Trust
timber castle on the site as part of the pacification of Somerset. A stone shell keep was built on the motte by the start of the 12th century, and the castle
Dunster_Castle
Aldford, Cheshire castle
Margaret. Archaeological findings show that it was rebuilt in stone as a shell keep castle in the 13th century. The purpose of the castle appears to have
Aldford_Castle
Unix shell
The Z shell (Zsh) is a shell and a command-line interpreter for shell scripts. Zsh mostly maintains the Bourne shell's syntax and behavior, but in its
Z_shell
Defensive structure used in fortifications
tower Half tower Martello tower Scottish Broch Tower house Witch tower Shell keep Kennedy (2000). Kennedy, Hugh (2000). Crusader Castles. Cambridge University
Fortified_tower
United States-based subsidiary of Shell plc
Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States–based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a British transnational corporation
Shell_USA
Castle in Northumberland, England
built without a square keep. The castle consists of two main rings of buildings. The principal rooms are in the much-rebuilt shell keep at the centre of the
Alnwick_Castle
12th century castle in Waterford, Ireland
is composed of a polygonal shell keep, enclosed with a curtain wall, with corner and gate towers. The 12th-century shell keep is the earliest part of the
Dungarvan_Castle
Fortified Centre of Wareham and Part of the Motte and Bailey Castle with Shell Keep", Historic England, retrieved 26 August 2016 Royal Commission on the Historical
Wareham Castle and town defences
Wareham_Castle_and_town_defences
Ruined castle in Tretower, Powys, Wales
I, replaced the motte with a shell keep. By about 1230 a tall cylindrical keep was added to the inside of the shell keep, possibly by his great-grandson
Tretower_Castle
Area-denial weapon
ferreus, the latter meaning "jagged iron" (literally "iron spiny snail-shell"). The former term derives from the ancient Greek word tribolos meaning
Caltrop
Norman castle in Cornwall, England
shell keep raised on an earlier motte. Although in ruins, much of the Norman walls remain standing, so that the original form of the Castle and keep are
Trematon_Castle
Motte-and-bailey castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales
of stone, and show the original features without embellishments. The shell keep on the summit of the Motte is typical of the Norman stonework of the time
Wiston_Castle
castles, three fortified manor houses, an enclosure castle, and a possible shell keep. A motte-and-bailey castle is characterised by two elements: the motte
List of castles in Greater Manchester
List_of_castles_in_Greater_Manchester
Air defense towers used by Nazi Germany
rounds per minute from their multi-level guns (albeit mostly smaller-caliber shells, such as the 2cm FlaK 30), with a range of up to 14 km (8.7 mi) in a 360-degree
Flak_tower
Payload-carrying projectile
A shell, in a modern military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling. Originally it was called
Shell_(projectile)
Term for post-traumatic stress disorder
Shell shock is a term that originated during World War I to describe symptoms similar to those of combat stress reaction and post-traumatic stress disorder
Shell_shock
Fortified structure
lacking features such as towers and arrowslits and relying on a central keep. In the late 12th and early 13th centuries, a scientific approach to castle
Castle
Underground home
design to a "ship in a bottle". There was a reinforced steel and concrete shell and it was 13 ft (4.0 m) underground and it is under 3 ft (0.91 m) of soil
Atomitat
Camouflaged one-man foxhole
hometown of Tikrit). List of established military terms Trench Fox hole Shell scrape Trench warfare Defensive fighting position Staff (April 18, 2003)
Spider_hole
Small fortification with holes through which soldiers can fire ranged weapons
tilted or turned upside down by the nearby explosion of even medium (240mm) shells. However, it seems more likely that it originally alluded to pillar boxes
Pillbox_(military)
Type of fortress in Arab or Islamic regions
right position of a watchtower, on a hill top, is the wrong place for a keep or granary." Archaeologists have found images of similar towers in the ruins
Kasbah
Defensive military storage fortification
location is a reinforced below-ground bathroom with fiber-reinforced plastic shells. Bunkers deflect the blast wave from nearby explosions to prevent ear and
Bunker
Script written for an operating system shell
A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered
Shell_script
Defensive ditch surrounding a fortification or town
Retrieved May 12, 2010. Glaister, Dan (March 14, 2008). "US city plans moat to keep out migrants". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on September
Moat
Medieval architectural style
period had a high tower, called a donjon or keep, usually surrounded by a lower wall, called a shell keep. The earliest were rectangular, but were usually
French Romanesque architecture
French_Romanesque_architecture
Early modern fortification style built to withstand cannon fire
star-shaped city". In the nineteenth century, the development of the explosive shell changed the nature of defensive fortifications. Elvas, in Portugal is considered
Bastion_fort
1995 film by Mamoru Oshii
Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 Japanese animated tech noir cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Mamoru Oshii from a screenplay by Kazunori Itō, based
Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film)
Partly ruined castle in Oxford in Oxfordshire, England
reconstructed from its original materials in 1794. The ten-sided stone shell keep, 58 feet (18 m), constructed in the 13th century to replace an earlier
Oxford_Castle
Place of storage for ammunition or other explosive material
seawater in an emergency. The separation of shell and propellant gave the storage of the former the name "shell room" and the latter "powder room". Surface
Magazine_(artillery)
Grade I listed monument in York, England
nine centuries on the north-west side of the River Foss. The now ruined keep of the medieval Norman castle is commonly referred to as Clifford's Tower
York_Castle
Phylum of animals having a dorsal nerve cord
of calcite, a material not used by chordates. Their hard, calcified shells keep their bodies well protected from the environment, and these skeletons
Chordate
Circular fortified settlements found in Northern Europe
defended settlement on a rise of elevation Ringwork – Type of early castle Shell keep – Style of medieval fortification "Flying Past - The Historic Environment
Ringfort
Medieval castle in Warwickshire, England
the motte-and-bailey was replaced with a stone keep castle. This new phase took the form of a shell keep with all the buildings constructed against the
Warwick_Castle
Underground structure for launching missiles
possible from major population centres. They had many defense systems to keep out intruders and other defense systems to prevent destruction (see Safeguard
Missile_launch_facility
records (formerly PastScape), retrieved 15 May 2021 Halton Castle: ruined shell keep castle on site of motte & bailey, Revealing Cheshire's Past, retrieved
List_of_castles_in_Cheshire
Civil parish in Greater Manchester, England
mention of Ullerwood Castle, which is now in Ringway parish. It is a shell keep; at that time it was owned by Hamon de Massey. 1515: First mention of
Ringway,_Manchester
Castle in France
with flanking towers. The octagonal keep is considered one of the best preserved examples of a shell keep. A second keep, cylindrical, called the Prisoner's
Château_de_Gisors
Norman castle in Hertfordshire, England
century, the castle had been rebuilt in stone, probably by Becket, with a shell keep and an outer stone wall; the bailey was divided in two by a wall to form
Berkhamsted_Castle
Hard, protective outer layers created by an animal that lives in the sea
A seashell (or sea shell), also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea
Seashell
Ruined castle in Brecon, Powys, Wales
out through the castle's history. A shell keep made of stone was constructed in the late 12th century (the keep was initially made of wood). In 1233
Brecon_Castle
Type of earthwork constructed in a military context
employed the shell scrape. This was a very shallow excavation allowing one soldier to lie horizontally while shielding his body from nearby shell bursts and
Defensive_fighting_position
Fortified structure
a depth of 18 metres (59 ft), intended to defeat the new high explosive shells. Towards the end of the century, Imperial Germany had developed a new form
Casemate
the 11th century. A ring-motte is a ring-work with a raised centre. A shell keep was a motte with a stone wall rather than a wooden stockade on top; there
List of castles in Gloucestershire
List_of_castles_in_Gloucestershire
Device used in the cooking of eggs
needle to keep the shell from cracking during boiling. If both ends of the shell are pierced, the egg can be blown out while preserving the shell (for crafts)
Egg_piercer
Type of barbed wire
Barbed wire obstacles were vulnerable to being pushed about by artillery shells; in World War I, this frequently resulted in a mass of randomly entangled
Concertina_wire
Entry control building
was so strongly fortified it took on the function of a keep, sometimes referred to as a "gate keep". In the late Middle Ages, some of these arrow loops
Gatehouse
Castle in Southampton, England
additional resources in the castle, and in 1187 the wooden keep was converted into a stone shell-keep. John increased spending on the castle during his reign
Southampton_Castle
Superfamily of crustaceans (Paguroidea)
superfamily Paguroidea that have adapted to occupy empty scavenged gastropod shells to protect their fragile abdomens. There are over 800 species of hermit
Hermit_crab
The terms shell dwellers or shelldwellers, shell-breeding, or ostracophil are descriptive terms for cichlid fish that use the empty shells of aquatic snails
Shell_dwellers
Cold War bunker and museum in Ottawa, Canada
Diefenbunker in 2000. Additional part-time staff were hired throughout the year to keep up with museum maintenance and upkeep. As of 2008, the Diefenbunker averages
Diefenbunker
Main defensive enclosure of a fortification
wall systems were built (e.g. as Zwingers) that could also be used to keep dogs, wild boar or bears, or even cattle in times of need. During the Baroque
Enceinte
Protective slope built into a fortification
into gun platforms. Early modern European fortresses were constructed to keep any potential assailant under the fire of the defenders until the last possible
Glacis
Fortresses constructed primarily by stone or wood in earlier Japanese history
wood and earthenworks. Often, a system of fire beacons, drums, or conch shells was set up to enable communications between these castles over a great distance
Japanese_castle
Anti-personnel artillery munitions
Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions that carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them
Shrapnel_shell
Type of fortification
loopholes was one of the principal means of defense. A feudal lord could keep watch over his domain from the top of his tower. In southern Saudi Arabia
Watchtower
Town in Surrey, England
of shell keep at Guildford Castle (Grade I) (1177988)". National Heritage List for England. Alexander 2006, p. 19 Historic England. "The castle Keep (Grade
Guildford
Dungarvan Castle – Dungarvan, County Waterford, Castle with a 12th-century shell keep, with curtain wall, corner tower and gate tower. Dunmore Caves – Ballyfoyle
List of heritage sites (Republic of Ireland)
List_of_heritage_sites_(Republic_of_Ireland)
Rotatable weapon mount
guns protected by a 'cupola' and used the raft, named the Lady Nancy, to shell the Russian town of Taganrog in the Black Sea during the Siege of Taganrog
Gun_turret
Fortification used to protect an area from potential aggressors
This held true into the twentieth century, when even modern explosive shells had some difficulty in breaking through tamped earth walls. — Peter Lorge
Defensive_wall
Norman castle in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
those with whom they intermarried came to dominate the interior. The shell keep contains a 12th-century gate tower and later residential accommodation
Tamworth_Castle
Class of mollusks
would have allowed the shells of these early forms to become gas-filled (thus buoyant) in order to support them and keep the shells upright while the animal
Cephalopod
Shell or sea snails
medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point
Conch
Medieval castle in Bedford, England
lay around the castle; and a new keep was built on the motte. Brown suspects that the new keep was probably a shell keep with a tower, similar to those
Bedford_Castle
Chinese rural dwellings
guarded by 4–5-inch-thick (100–130 mm) wooden doors reinforced with an outer shell of iron plate. The top level of these earth buildings has gun holes for
Fujian_tulou
Roman term for a fortified military base
included marches, combat drills with wooden weapons, and strength exercises to keep them battle-ready. Depending on their location and the state of the fortress
Castra
Defensive obstacles made from barbed wire
formed when conventional barbed wire fences had been damaged by artillery shells. Whenever there was time and opportunity to plan and emplace wire obstacles
Wire_obstacle
Narrow vertical aperture in a fortification
also been suggested that it was to allow the defenders of White Castle to keep attackers in their sights for longer because of the steep moat surrounding
Arrowslit
Japanese architectural element
Yagura (櫓, 矢倉) is the Japanese word for "tower", "turret", "keep", or "scaffold". The word is most often seen in reference to structures in Japanese castle
Yagura_(tower)
Military defensive construction
fronted by earth slopes to improve protection. The arrival of explosive shells in the 19th century led to another stage in the evolution of fortification
Fortification
Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015. Historic England. "Shell keep castle, part of the associated outer bailey, ninth century cemetery and
Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane
Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Taunton_Deane
Fortified yard in a medieval castle
most important and prestigious buildings, such as the great hall and the keep or bergfried, were usually located in the inner bailey of the castle, sometimes
Bailey_(castle)
Castle in the United Kingdom
secluded hunting lodge in Leighfield Forest. It comprised a ringwork or shell keep, with an adjacent bailey; earthwork dams were constructed to flood the
Sauvey_Castle
Land warfare involving static fortification of lines
gas shells. The British experimented with firing thermite incendiary shells, to set trees and ruins alight. However, all armies experienced shell shortages
Trench_warfare
Type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points
railroads throughout the growing West needed to keep livestock off their tracks, and farmers needed to keep stray cattle from trampling their crops. Traditional
Barbed_wire
A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard
List of motte-and-bailey castles
List_of_motte-and-bailey_castles
Type of fortification
and outer ward. They are typically built without a central free-standing keep. Where the castle includes a particularly strong tower (donjon), such as
Concentric_castle
Temporary wooden defensive structures
tower of Stokesay Castle, England, and the keep of Laval, France. The Château Comtal of Carcassonne and the keep of Rouen Castle, both in France, have reconstructed
Hoarding_(castle)
Castle in Greater Manchester, England
Ullerwood Castle is an early medieval castle, possibly a shell keep, in Ringway, a civil parish on the southern border of Manchester, England. Twelfth-century
Ullerwood_Castle
2020 Japanese-American animated webseries
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (Japanese: 攻殻機動隊 SAC_2045, Hepburn: Kōkaku Kidōtai Esu-Ē-Shī Nī-Zero-Yon-Go) is a Japanese original net animation (ONA) series
Ghost_in_the_Shell:_SAC_2045
Anglo-Saxon nobleman
dispossessed Roger de Berkeley and his father. Fitzharding built the shell keep between 1153 and 1156, on the site of the former motte. The building of
Robert_Fitzharding
SHELL KEEP
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Girl/Female
Welsh
Shell.
Male
Icelandic
Icelandic form of Old Norse Ãsketill, ÃSKELL means "divine kettle."
Girl/Female
Hindu
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Hill, from southeastern Middle English hell ‘hill’, a dialect form characteristic of Kent and Sussex.English : from a personal name, Helle, which may have been a variant of Elie (a Middle English form of Elias), or perhaps a short form of a personal name formed with Hild- as the first element (see Hilliard for example), or perhaps from the female personal name Helen.German : nickname from Middle High German hell ‘bright’, ‘shining’.German : variant of Helle 3.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Shelley.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Good Character
Surname or Lastname
North German
North German : topographic name for someone who lived near a marsh, from an old dialect word stel ‘bog’, where the land was built up on mudflats (behind the dyke) for cattle grazing. The word later assumed the meaning ‘small farm’.English (West Yorkshire) : variant of Still 2, possibly also of Steel.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Cultured
Surname or Lastname
English (Gloucestershire)
English (Gloucestershire) : unexplained.Americanized spelling of Schill.
Girl/Female
Anglo Saxon English American
From the ledge meadow.
Boy/Male
English American
Meadow on a ledge.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a brisk or active person, from Middle English snell ‘quick’, ‘lively’, in part also representing a survival of the Old English personal name Snell or the cognate Old Norse Snjallr.
Male
English
Short form of English unisex Shelley, SHELL means "clearing near a ledge/slope."
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon
Nold.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Character, Custom, Nature
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Mountain
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English
Meadow on a Ledge
Girl/Female
Hindu
A way to do work
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Shell, a place in Worcestershire, so named from Old English scylf ‘bank’, ‘shelf’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Schelle ‘bell’.Americanized spelling of German Schall or Schill.
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Assamese, Australian, Bengali, British, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
From the Ledge Meadow; Meadow on the Ledge; Little Rock; Ewe; Female Sheep; Style; Manner; Method; Language
SHELL KEEP
SHELL KEEP
Boy/Male
Irish
Of the red earth.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Pakistani
A Gift of Allah
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Krishna
Girl/Female
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Muslim
Smart
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Leddon.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Haridasapriya | ஹரீதாஸாபà¯à®°à®¿à®¯à®¾
Name of a Raga
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Beloved Cherisher; Protector
Male
Hebrew
(יִתְרï‹) Hebrew name YITHROW means "his abundance" or "overhanging." In the bible, this is the name of the father-in-law of Moses. Jethro is the Anglicized form. He is also known as Yether.Â
Boy/Male
Danish
Glacier.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Rudraveerya | à®°à¯à®¤à¯à®°à®µà®¿à®°à¯à®¯
Samudbhava born of Shiva
SHELL KEEP
SHELL KEEP
SHELL KEEP
SHELL KEEP
SHELL KEEP
v. t.
To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
n.
A shell or pod.
a.
Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell.
n.
A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
n.
Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
v. i.
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
v. i.
To exercise the sense of smell.
n.
A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.
v. t.
To shell.
n.
A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
v. t.
To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
n.
The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.
a.
Having no shell.
v. i.
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
n.
The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
n.
A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.
n.
Any pteropod shell.
v. t.
To put under cover; to sheal.